Strictly for the birds ....for your Happy Thanksgiving

Your Right Wing Chef | Oct. 29 2001 | Carlo3b

[MozartLover]

Hubby likes the look of those recipes you so graciously shared with me........even checked to see if he had any amaretto on hand (no) so it looks like it's a go!!

Any ideas for a fancy-schmancy corn dish? I just think pork & corn go together.........

[Snow Bunny]

I learn so much in your thread. It is like a cooking school. I just love it. Thank you sooooo much.

Carlo's FReeper Cooking School

Tah dah ! The best in all the land.

[carlo3b]

Any ideas for a fancy-schmancy corn dish????......

My ideas for a fancy-schmancy corn dishes!!!!...LOLOLOL

Fancy Corn and Zucchini Melody
"Zucchini, corn and onions sautéed and combined with crumbled bacon and cheese. "

• 4 slices bacon
• 2 cups chopped zucchini
• 1 1/2 cups fresh corn
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 dash pepper
• 1/4 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese

Directions
1 Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, reserving 1 tablespoon of drippings, crumble and set aside.
2 In the skillet with the bacon drippings, sauté the zucchini, corn and onion over medium heat until crisp tender, about 10 to 13 minutes. Season with pepper.
3 Spoon vegetables into a bowl and sprinkle with cheese and crumbled bacon
.Makes 4 servings

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Schmancy Corn Casserole

• 7/8 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 (15 ounce) can cream style corn
• 1/2 (8 ounce) container sour cream
• 1 tablespoon and 2-1/4 teaspoons butter, melted
• 1/2 (15.25 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
• 2/3 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
• 3 tablespoons and 1-3/4 teaspoons chopped onion
• 1/2 (4 ounce) can diced green chiles, drained
• 1/2 (8.5 ounce) package dry corn muffin mix

Directions
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2 quart casserole dish.
2 In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs, cream style corn, sour cream and melted butter. Stir in whole kernel corn, cheese, onion and chilies. Stir in the corn muffin mix until just moistened.
3 Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 75 minutes; or until an inserted knife comes out clean and the top is golden. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.
Makes 4 servings

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Fiesta Corn with Tomatoes and Green Chiles

• 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 1-1/3 cups whole kernel corn
• 2/3 cup chopped onion
• 2/3 clove garlic, finely chopped
• 2/3 cup chopped tomato
• 2/3 (4 ounce) can Diced Green Chiles
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

HEAT vegetable oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add corn, onion and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, for 3 to 4 minutes or until onion is tender. Add tomato, chiles and salt; cook, stirring occasionally, for 1 to 2 minutes or until heated through.
Makes 4 servings

[carlo3b]

Blush.....thanks

[Snow Bunny]

I love corn.This sounds delicious.

[jellybean]

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• On Sears hairdryer:  Do not use while sleeping.  (Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair!)

• On a bag of Fritos: You could be a winner!  No purchase necessary.  Details inside.  (The shoplifter special!)

• On a bar of Dial soap: Directions: Use like regular soap.  (and that would be how?)

• On some Swann frozen dinners: Serving suggestion: Defrost.  (But it's *just* a suggestion!)

• On a hotel provided shower cap in a box: Fits one head.  (really?)

• On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (printed on bottom of the box) Do not turn upside down.  (Too late! You lose!)

• On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: Product will be hot after heating.  (Are you sure???  Let's experiment.)

• On packaging for a Rowenta iron: Do not iron clothes on body.  (But wouldn't that save more time?)

• On Boot's Children's cough medicine: Do not drive car or operate machinery.  (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction incidents if we just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.)

• On Nytol sleep aid: Warning: may cause drowsiness.  (One would hope!)

• On a string of Chinese-made Christmas lights: For indoor or outdoor use only.  (As opposed to use in outer space?)

• On a Japanese food processor: Not to be used for the other use.  (Now I'm curious.)

• On Sainsbury's peanuts: Warning: contains nuts.  (but no peas?)

• On an American Airlines packet of nuts:  Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.  (have a lobotomy)

• On a Swedish chainsaw: Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.  (What is this, a home castration kit?)

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[Snow Bunny]

These are great ! ROTFL.....love it Jellybean!!!!!!

Thank you.

[jellybean]

Hi Chrissie, thanks for reading it. I loved your story about the turkey suprise...hahaha Did anyone have a successful 1st turkey? Not me!!...I've already told my story...Yikes!!!

[MozartLover]

Thanks!! They all look good but I'm thinking "Schmancy" is THE ONE.

One teeny, tiny question: is it 7/8 CUP of eggs???

[Snow Bunny]

hahaha. I guess we all get it right after the first time. What fun to tell funny cooking and baking stories. giggle

[carlo3b]

7/8th cup of eggs, denotes my uncertainty of the size egg you purchase. I am suggesting measuring volume, in lieu of number of units!....anyway, thats my story and I'm sticking to it!!...LOLOL

[AnnaZ]

You're a doll for thinking of, and pinging, me.

 

I haven't had a chance to read the replies, so I'm sure it's already been said... but might you have a few too many zeroes in your recipe directions?

 

Bon appetit!

[jellybean]

Here's a cute little joke for you this morning...

Here vs. Hear

Two sweet young things are driving through Louisiana.  When they reach the town of Natchitoches, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the name. They argue back and forth until they stop for lunch.  As they stand at the counter, one asks the manager, "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please tell us where we are? We're having trouble deciding how to pronounce it."  The manager leans over the counter and says, "Burrrrrrrr-gerrrrrrr Kiiiiing."

[jellybean]

I'm sorry, I've had this problem for years and no one seems to be able to help. I have tried a number of times to smoke a turkey, but I just don't know which end to light!

You light the butt, of course. Be sure to keep a tray handy for when the ash falls off!

[Angelique]

LOLOLOL! I've seen some of those before, but your comments are so funny! Speaking of turkey, once my mom and I were grocery shopping, and she always looks for a bargain. We hit the frozen section where the turkeys were on sale. They had a big sign posted: PARTS MISSING." We looked at each other and both said, "What parts?" It goes down hill from there!

[jellybean]

The comments are not mine. They were added in the email I received, but I thought they were hillarious!

I always figured chicken or turkey with parts missing were destined for the dinner table anyway. :^)

[carlo3b]

Hunting the Truffle

 "Man has measured Heaven, has studied the path of the comets, he has discovered the traction, has invented the steam...and he still is not able to grow truffles". M.Burnet (1836)

It's not impossible to find truffles, but it would be well worth the trouble to try. Black truffles for instance, retail for up to $600 a pound. One of the most expensive and sought after fungi in the mushroom family.

It is extremely difficult and requires endless patience to find truffles without animals.  In France, the detective work has traditionally been done by pigs, which have an insatiable appetite for truffles (this may explain why they receive a share of their precious find).

Guided by the pungent odor (which apparently has some chemical similarity to the scent of a pig in season), the animals sniff out the truffles and grub them up with their snouts.

Of late, beset by difficulties in controlling their swine, the French have followed the Italians’ (YEAH!!) lead and begun training truffle-hunting dogs.

It’s true that dogs don’t have as sensitive a nose as pigs do, but they are reliable and do not tire as quickly. They must be carefully looked after to avoid “spoiling” of their noses, though. Young dogs are paired with old hounds, and a truffle is rubbed on their noses to give them the scent.  Once the dogs have located the truffles, their masters help dig.
In the absence of a trained pig or dog, there is one other possible method of locating truffles:  find a potential site, then search for animal scratching, especially those of badgers and squirrels, or look for a cloud of flies hovering just above the ground, as flies too will have been lured by the aroma of the developing tubers.

If you are wandering in you own playground, backyard, or Park almost anywhere in North America, you may uncover an underground tuber by this method, but don’t expect to find an European species of truffle. The only truffle you will find using this method is one you wouldn’t want to eat it...yuck!!

There are three famous edible species of truffles, all highly prized for their intense flavor:

White Italian Truffle or Piedmont truffles (Tuber Magnatum)

Black French Winter Truffle or Perigord truffles (Tuber Melanosporum)

Black Summer Truffle (Tuber Aestivum)

Unfortunately, none of these subterranean tubers has been found in North America, though plenty of their underground relatives do grow in the United States and Canada.  Some of the North American types are edible, and there are those who think the Oregon, and Washington White Truffle (Tuber gibbosum) are as good as the European variety. Certainly, however, Europeans and South Americans would not agree.
Pity, I was ready to quit my day job, hahahaha and get a pig..but thats another story..Bwhahaahhahhh


 

[Snow Bunny]

ROTFL.......you are so absoutely adorable I love it !!!!

[MozartLover]

Okay, 7/8 cup it is.

You don't have any sexy green bean recipes laying around, do you???

[carlo3b]

FILLET OF BEEF WELLINGTON Diet-rite Yummmmmmmmm....LOLOL